A History Of The Lebaneses Civil War...

[vetuste_ennemi]

...can anyone recommend a good book on the subject, please? I've just bought the Kindle version of Robert Fisk's Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War, which is a first-hand journalist's report of his experiences.

[Peter Pedant]

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A History Of The Lebaneses Civil War...

surely that should be A History of the Lesbian Civil War....

I am not sure if there is a decent English history of the descent of Lebanon from a successful westernised economy in the early sixties, patronised by rich Arabs as a playground, to a flattened area of rubble in the early seventies.

[Peter Pedant]

here is a break down of Lebanese leaders

I thought Walid Jumblatt was a paediatrician but this is denied .....

and all I can think is - thank God none of them govern us !

[Peter Pedant]

. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4348129.stm

[vetuste_ennemi]

Yes, it's a tragedy, Peter. I'm expecting Fisk as a writer for the Independent to tell me that it's all Israel's fault, which is why I'd like to get an analysis by a professional historian as well.

[Peter Pedant]

Israel is pretty obviously gonna be blamed

but I think three million people ( er lets call them the Lesbians ) agreed collectively to implode

[vetuste_ennemi]

Wasn't there a group called Lezbollah?

[sandyRoe]

You don't hear much of Walid Jumblatt these days.

[Peter Pedant]

Sandy Walid Jumblatt

no he is still here
hereditary leader of the Druze apparently

father did and his g f was a Prince. Obvious leader therefore
screwanything like an election